Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein

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born
February 03, 1874 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, The United States

died
July 27, 1946

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Gertrude Stein was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874-1914, and the second with Alice B. Toklas, from 1907 until Stein's death in 1946. Stein shared her salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice. Throughout her lifetime, Stein cultivated significant tertiary relationships with well-known members of the avant garde artistic and literary world of her time.


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Average rating: 3.74 · 6,875 ratings · 656 reviews · 87 distinct works
The Autobiography of Alice B....
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 2,051 ratings — published 1933 — 21 editions
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Tender Buttons
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Three Lives
3.23 of 5 stars 3.23 avg rating — 997 ratings — published 1909 — 45 editions
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions
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Picasso
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 1938 — 5 editions
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How to Write
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 1973 — 5 editions
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The Making of Americans
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1925 — 6 editions
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Paris France
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 1940 — 8 editions
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Everybody's Autobiography
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1971 — 7 editions
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More books by Gertrude Stein…
“Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. ”
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“If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.”
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“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
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